Fortunately, Link is a simple man, and that makes him exceedingly easy to get along with. Break bread with him, don't be outwardly nefarious. The smaller elf nods like 'Goron' is completely self-explanatory, his mouth full of something else.

"Kind of. It took 100 years, and there weren't many Hyruleans left who remembered."

He doesn't say what took 100 years. It's still strange to admit outright that he died... he can't linger on his failures when there is still so much left to accomplish.